How book prices affect readers and writers…

“The older I get, the more acutely I am aware that the vast majority of what is written remains unread.”—Jhumpa Lahiri, writer and Pulitzer Prize winner for Interpreter of Maladies, a short story collection. This quote is disconcerting to me as both a reader (so much to read, so little time to do it) and as a writer (probably most of what I write remains unread, but I haven’t read Ms. Lahiri either). We can search for causes of the decline in reading and literacy; there are many. In this arti...